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Greenback
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paper $ issued by govt for taxes NOT gold
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green and paperous
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habeas corpus
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Rule that told people why they were on trial. Licoln eliminated it b/c too hassle
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martial law
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temporary rule by military authorities
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conscription (act)
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draft to bring people to fight
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Ft Sumter
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Fort to protect the Charleston Harbor where Licoln made supplies run out therefore Confederates had first shot of war
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Trent Affair
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US captured the "Trent" in International waters with Confederate sailors but Licoln released them after British threats
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Bill to free slaves and motive for Union fighters
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Homestead Act 1862
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Free land if you farm it for 5 years
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Morrill Land Grant Act 1862
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law passed for land grant for state establishments
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Pacific Railway Act 1862
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land grants for railroads (TRANSCONTINENTAL ROADS)
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National Banking Act 1863
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Took away states rights to print $=therefore uniform currency
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Sherman's March to the sea
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Atlanta to Georgia where they schorched everything behind them.
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ex parte Merryman/Milligan
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limit military rule and way of keeping military from going into justice
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FL & AL ships
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Confederate ships built by British
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Monitor and Merrimack Ships
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1st iron clad ships which changed ships forever
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Radical Republicans
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north group wanting slaves free
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Jefferson Davis
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Miss. senator and former Secretary of war so 1st CONFEDERATE PRES
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Licoln
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Pres in North
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Stonewall Jackson
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Confed. general killed at Chancellorsville accidental shot by own solider, (Lee's R hand man)
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Thaddeus Stevens/ Ben Wade
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Penn. congressman, leader of Rad Repubs/ RR
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Copperhead
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"peace" democrat
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Bull Run
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July 1861,
1st battle-Mcdowell vs. Beauregard both retreated to reprepare 2nd battle- 1862 Confed "stonewall" defeated Union & John Pope |
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Peninsula Campaign
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1862 Union-mcClellan civil war campaigned with Richmond as objetive = failed
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Fredricksburg
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1962 battle where Union- Burnside failed and lost
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Chancellorsville
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Confederate victory where "Stonewall" was wounded
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Appomattox
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April 9, 1865 Lee surrendered to Grant near Virginia
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Fort Donelson
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one of two strategic forts on Tenn and Cumerland River for Union
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Shiloh
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Union victory along Tenn River and enabled forces to capture rail junction
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Western War
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Grant to get off Mississippi
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joint stock company
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English merchants invest in companies where investors pool capital for colony planting (VA, plymouth and MA bay Co.)
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Squanto
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English speaking Indian who helped Pilgrims at Plymouth Plantation cook fish
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London Company
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joint stock co by English settlers in Jamestown, VI in 1607
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Mayflower Compact
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agreement among pilgrims to establish a govt before ship reached to land
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Humphrey Gilbert
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English courtier who founded English colony in Newfoundland in 1580's
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Walter Raleigh
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English courtier who attempted an English settlement on Roanoke Island in 1587 (failed for no supplies)
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Compromise of 1877
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to settle disputed pres election in 1876 -Rutherford Hayes won and Repubs withdrew fed troops from south and end reconstruction
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Civil Rights Act
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declared Blacks as citizens of US and denied states power to restrict Black civil rights.
Congress overrode Pres. Johnson's veto |
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carpetbaggers
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northerners who went to S after civil war-Rebpublicans politics
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Force Acts
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attack on KKK by congress. To protect black voters in S by placing state elections under fed jurisdiction and imposed fines and imprisonment on KKK
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Freedmen's Bureau
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Aid formers slaves with education, food, work...
Congress overrode Johnson' veto |
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Freeport Doctrine
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lincoln-douglass debates -people in terr. could exclude slavery simplay by not passing the local laws that held blacks in bondage. (helped Douglass win re-election into senate but hurt for pres.)
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French and Indian War
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England V. France (N.A. aganist French and Naive Americans allies) -seven years war
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Wade-Davis bill
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1864 substite for lincoln's 10% plan. Majority of voters to take loyal oath for reconstruction to begin for black equality, and repudiation of confederate debt (pocket veto-never became law)
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War Hawks
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congressional leader who wanted war aganist GB to defend Americans rights away from BRITSH
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War of 1812
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US v. GB over Britsh restrictions on American shipping
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Webster-Ashburton Treaty
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settled the controversy over the Maine-Canada boundary and allowed Canada to build military road
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Webster-Hayne debate
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Hayne tried to forge alliance of S and W on a cheap land policy and low tariffs. Webster accused Haynes of unconstiutional
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Whig party
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political party formed in opposition to Jacksonian Democrats that favored a strong role for the national government in promoting economic growth.
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Whiskey Rebellion
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W PA farmers didnt want to pay whiskey tax by Hamilton's financial program so threated to destroy Pittsburg but Washington and Hamiliton took army to supress rebellion
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Wilmot Proviso
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bill that provided for banning slavery from any territory the United States might acquire from Mexico as a result of war
NEVER PASSED |
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David Wilmot
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DEMO CONGRESSMAN from PA who wanted Wilmot Provosivo
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Worcester v. Georgia
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ruled that a state government could not govern the Indians and GA force Cherokees to leave state
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1 writ of habeas corpus
2 writ of mandamus 3 writs of assistance |
1 must be told why on trial
2 requiring public officals to do something cause of (marbury v. madison) 3 search warrants that allowed British to look for stolen goods in houses |
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John Adams
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was Washingtons Vp and defeated Jefferson for pres in 1796. (went aganist parties demand for war with France during term)
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John Quincy Adams
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Monroe's secretary of State and unsucessful pres in 1824
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Alien and Sedition Acts
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attack on Repub party & aganist Fed policies. (no freedom of speech & liberty)
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amnesty
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former confederates to take loyalty to US
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Antifederalists
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opposed ratification of constitution, and wanted more of bill of rights
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Appomattox
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april 9 1865 confed Robert Lee surrended to Grant in this VA town
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Articles of Confederation
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1st constitution that limited authority by denying national govt and any coercive power including the power to tax and regulate trade
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Stephen Austin
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contracted with Mexican govt to settle American families in TX in 1820's
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Bacon's Rebellion
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army rebellion aganist indians then led up to agaisnt gov of VA (Sir Berkeley) = Berkeleyls political favoritism...
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Bank War
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Jacksons veto over renewal of BUS charter.
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Battle of Antietam
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1862 Lee invaded Maryland. McClellan delayed couterattacks because both sides lost and retreated
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Battle of Bull Run
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1861 McDowell aganist Beauregard- both retreated for more preparation
1862 Stonewall Jackson against Pope |
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Battle of Bunker Hill
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1st battle of rev war. British (lost of deaths) and ended hope of negotiation
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Battle of Lexington and Concord
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British suffered and Merican militia men killed them
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Battle of New Orleans
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Jackson's victory over the British in 1815 made him war hero- British had no hope of controlling Miss Riv
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Battle of Saratoga
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Burgoyne surrendered to General Horatio Gates in 1777- France ally up with Americans
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Battle of Tippecanoe
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Harrison led his forces against Chief Tecumseh's Indian confederacy at Tippecanoe in the Ohio country
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Battle of Trenton
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Washington captured thousands in Trenton NJ by recrossing the Delaware River to suprise them
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John Bell
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Tenn, nominee of constitutional party in 1860
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Black Codes
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S laws denied rights to free blacks (to control dree's geting out of hand) outraged N
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Black Hawk's War
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Federal troops and Illinois militia units defeated the Sauk and Fox Indians led by Black Hawk during this short war in 1832.
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Bleeding Kansas
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fight for pro or anti slavery for Kansas to be admitted
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border ruffians
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people who crossed into Missouri to vote pro slave and then left
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John Breckinridge
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Buchanan's VP was nominated for pres by S wing of Demo party. wanted slaveryt err but lost election to lincoln
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James Buchanan
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"doughface" by repubs won pres election in 1856. (ostend manifesto)
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Chancellorsville
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1862 Confederate victory where Jackson was injured
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Church of England
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England assumed leadership of Protestant world
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Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
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demilitarization and joint British American control of any canal across istmus of Panama
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Coercive Acts
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intended to punish Boston (quartering acts, intolerable and Quebec..)
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Compromise of 1850
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-banned slave trade
-applied PopSov remain mexican in terr -settle new-mexico boundary -passed a more stringent Fug Slave Act |
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Copperheads
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northern Democrats who opposed all aganist confederacy
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Crittenden Compromise
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slavery allowed in all terr S of 36-30 line
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Jefferson Davis
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first and only pres of confederate (MISS senator)
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Declaratory Act
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after repealed stamp act-colonies were under parliment control (could tax anything) free to make up rule whenever they wanted
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